Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front pages of the newspapers last week. While Senator Couzens was peevishly demanding Secretary Mellon's resignation, Senator Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, twice elected "good gray governor" of Michigan (1913-16) and first Democrat to be sent to the Senate from that State in 70 years?quietly, unostentatiously died of pneumonia...
Died. William Kent, 64, multi-millionaire California landowner, progressive political leader, onetime (1911-17) Congressman, member in 1917 of the U. S. Tariff Commission; of pneumonia; in Kentfield, Marin county, Calif...
When one is only six months old and only the second daughter of an Emperor, what does it matter if one dies of pneumonia...
Died. Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, 64, famed pioneer of the automobile industry; of pneumonia; at his home in Chesterton, Md. Starting his career as a bicycle tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure...
Died. Max Pine, 62, labor leader, relief worker, a founder of the Forward, famed Jewish daily; of pneumonia; in Maywood...